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AWA Tuesday Talk— Water For Tomorrow: All-Party Candidates Forum on Water Issues

Alberta Wilderness Association
Mar 28 2012 - 7:00pm

“The reality is that fresh water is more valuable than crude oil.”
Peter Lougheed, Former Alberta Premier, 2005

In recent years, many Albertans have been engaged in a number of important water issues, and ensuring the security of our source water has become vitally important to each one of us. We believe there is both a need and high interest to discuss Alberta water resources policy and decision making. We hope you will attend this forum.

Candidates confirmed to represent their parties are the following: Read more »

Source: Alberta Wilderness Association

Location

AWA Hillhurst Room
455 12 Street NW
Calgary, AB
See map: Google Maps

Posted March 19, 2012 by AEN

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AWA Talk — Tracking the Golden Eagle

Alberta Wilderness Association
May 1 2012 - 7:00pm

 

With Peter Sherrington 

This spring will mark 20 years of golden eagle migration monitoring. Peter will give a fascinating talk about the trends and patterns that have emerged over that time. He will also give an update on some recent DNA work that has been done on golden eagles: how closely related are the eagles that migrate up and down the Rocky Mountains every year to the resident birds that stay put all year round? Read more »

Source: Alberta Wilderness Association

Location

Alberta Wilderness Association
455 12 Street NW
Calgary, AB
See map: Google Maps

Posted March 13, 2012 by AEN

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Film Screening & Talk: Staying Safe in Bear Country

Alberta Wilderness Association
Mar 31 2012 - 7:00pm

presents a special Film Screening: 

Staying Safe in Bear Country

With a guest appearance from Stephen Herrero 

As the summer hiking season approaches, and bears start to emerge from hibernation, how much do you know about staying safe during your recreational activities?  Read more »

Source: Alberta Wilderness Association

Location

Alberta Wilderness Association
455 12 Street NW
Calgary, AB
See map: Google Maps

Posted March 13, 2012 by AEN

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Alberta Government Kills 145 Bears at Oilsands Camps

No Charges Laid

Alberta Wilderness Association
22 Feb 2012

Last year, the Alberta government killed 145 garbage-habituated black bears at oilsands camps in Alberta. Poorly-managed oilsands camps are known to attract bears to garbage. But rather than enforcing regulations, or prosecuting the guilty companies, Alberta government staff simply move in and kill bears. Lots of bears. Read more »

Source: Alberta Wilderness Association

Posted February 22, 2012 by AEN

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Canadians Can Stop Massive Wolf Kill

Feb 22 2012 - 2:00pm

The deadline for Canadians to comment on the federal government’s massive wolf-kill caribou recovery strategy is February 22, 2012. For most Alberta boreal woodland caribou herds, the wolf-kill strategy would allow 95% of their habitat to be destroyed. Tar sands and other oil-gas activities in those herds’ ranges would not be disturbed. Please write Environment Minister Peter Kent and ask him to protect habitat that woodland caribou require for long-term survival and recovery, rather than encouraging decades-long killing of many thousands of wolves. Read more »

Source: Alberta Wilderness Association

Posted February 17, 2012 by AEN

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Canadians Can Stop Massive Wolf Kill

Alberta Wilderness Association
16 Feb 2012

The deadline for Canadians to comment on the federal government’s massive wolf-kill caribou recovery strategy is February 22, 2012. For most Alberta boreal woodland caribou herds, the wolf-kill strategy would allow 95% of their habitat to be destroyed. Tar sands and other oil-gas activities in those herds’ ranges would not be disturbed. Read more »

Source: Alberta Wilderness Association

Posted February 16, 2012 by AEN

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Over a hundred attend Valentine’s Day Rallies in Support of Forests

Bragg Creek Environmental Coalition
Castle-Crown Wilderness Coalition
Alberta Wilderness Association
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society— Southern Alberta Chapter
14 Feb 2012

Calgary, Edmonton, AB: More than 170 people attended rallies today in Calgary and Edmonton to send a strong message to the Government of Alberta: Albertans love their forests and don’t want the heart of protected areas like the Castle Special Place or poplar trail systems in Bragg Creek to be logged. Read more »

Source: Alberta Wilderness Association

Posted February 14, 2012 by AEN

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Conservation groups take Environment Minister to court over endangered Sage-grouse

Ecojustice
Alberta Wilderness Association
Wilderness Committee
Grassland Naturalists
Nature Saskatchewan
14 Feb 2012

EDMONTON — Conservation groups are taking Environment Minister Peter Kent to Federal Court over his continued failure to protect Canada’s endangered Greater Sage-grouse and fulfill his duties under the Species at Risk Act (SARA).

In November, Ecojustice filed a petition demanding Kent use a SARA provision to recommend emergency protection for sage-grouse and the habitat the species needs to survive in Canada. The protections requested included an end to further human disturbance, particularly oil and gas development, in crucial sage-grouse habitat. Read more »

Source: Ecojustice

Posted February 14, 2012 by russ

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Wild Lands Advocate February 2012, Vol. 20, No. 1

Alberta Wilderness Association

The latest issue of the Wildlands Advocate is now available from the Alberta Wilderness Association website. Read more »

Source: Alberta Wilderness Association

Posted February 10, 2012 by AEN

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